Bear in a Field of Flowers

Description

Title: Bear in a Field of Flowers

Artist: ArNoUx
Year: 2025
Medium: Acrylic on Leather (Ballet Shoe) — Multimedia
Dimensions: Size 9 (approx. 25 cm long × 5 cm wide)
Signature: ArNoUx
Series: German Expressionist 2025

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Curatorial Description:

This delicate ballet shoe, once worn by the artist herself, becomes a poetic canvas — a space where movement, memory, and emotion converge. Painted with the fingertip, Bear in a Field of Flowers portrays a small bear emerging through a meadow of colors, symbolizing tenderness, innocence, and resilience. The contrast between the softness of the leather and the intensity of the acrylic strokes evokes the tension between fragility and strength — between the body that dances and the soul that endures.

Within the context of German Expressionism, ArNoUx transforms the everyday object into a vessel of introspection: the shoe becomes a relic of past motion, now standing still yet alive with color and meaning. Each brush mark carries both the rhythm of dance and the quiet breath of faith.